Craft tried not to think about his previous misses as he watched the white numbers on the clock tick down and squared up to decide the game.
One can only imagine what Agnew would make of our political world today, in which a president's pronouncements are dissected syllable by syllable, tick-of-the-clock by tick-of-the-clock.
Ferguson and Manchester United knew the prospect was looming of Beckham allowing the clock to tick on his next deal and it was time to cash in.
In this case, the courts were faced with deciding whether the five-year clock begins to tick when the fraud is complete or when the fraud is discovered.
FORBES: Supreme Court Reverses SEC V. Gabelli On Discovery Rule Grounds
It was declared good, leaving Memphis a tick of the clock to inbound the ball but not enough to get off a final shot.
"The atomic clock is actually putting out an electronic signal which is essentially analogous to the ticking of a pendulum clock... which might tick once every second or once every couple of seconds, " says Dr McCarthy.
The play was like a clock, every word spoken was another tick of the second hand.
Tick-tock goes the tech clock, and with it, economic leadership.
FORBES: Tick-tock Goes The Tech Clock as China, India Close Gap
The workings of most chips are governed by a clock and the data processing they do advances with each tick of that time-keeper.
Skeleton clocks display the interior mechanisms of the timepiece, while mystery clocks, like the 1890 enamel and glass French timepiece showing a fetching young lady holding a pendulum clock, hide their mechanisms, thus presenting a mystery as to what makes them tick.
As the investments in both Blue Origin and the 10, 000-year clock show, it is the challenge of reaching for distant horizons that really makes Amazon's boss tick.
应用推荐